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Should the UN choose sides and wage war? This raises tremendous moral dilemmas for the UN in deciding who should be assisted and puts at risk its authority for future interventions, as Sanderson suggests, should things go badly wrong. Yet it would seem that the UN avoids moral decisions only at great cost. The failure of the UN to intervene in Rwanda in the face of massive genocide points to serious flaws in a system of global governance constrained and mediated through sovereign agents. As Destexhe points out, it leaves us to rely on 'humanitarian aid' often making the situation worse rather than facing the difficult decision of taking sides.

Yet even here, as Hamel-Green argues, the UN is seriously constrained in its capacity to implement denuclearization because of powerful and 'hold-out' states. Considerable effort has been made in other areas of the new security agenda. The UN has become the focus and instigator of much of the activity associated with the pursuit of 'environmental security'. This is perhaps the most obvious and pressing of those issues which are genuinely transnational in scope and whose management is beyond the capacity of any single state.

30 THE REALIST CRITIQUE OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY Now these critiques suggest that the Council's activity should not be understood in terms of a functioning collective security system. It does not involve rule application in the way that would differentiate it from 'normal' hegemonic or balance of power policy. All aggressors are not, in fact, being hit by the system. Some states that are not aggressors are being hit by it because that seems to be in the interests of the hegemonic powers. I call this the interpretative thesis.